Friday, May 4, 2012

MAC Week One: Comment to Kristen's Blog

In her post, Kristen said: "Although I am happy to have covered this subject, again I am questioning
the order of class sequence along this journey at Full Sail. I knew
what copyright was and that there were some rules, but I never really
knew all that entailed until embarking on my Full Sail journey. I was
first made aware of it when I made my introduction video, Week 1 of
Month 1, when I had looped the introduction to a Darius Rucker song as
my background music. I had JUST used iMovie for the first time, the
music files wouldn't show because I was missing an update, and my iTunes
library was nicely showing right there. Since then, we have been been
constantly reminded of the rules of using your own photographs or making
your own clip art. It wasn't until Full Sail that I was introduced to
Creative Commons, a site that I now use often. Since I have to make up
ALL of my own curriculum, I used to always just do a Google search for
images and use those throughout my lessons. Now that I have been made
aware, I always try Creative Commons first. Maybe it is just me, but I
think that this lesson and the lesson on iMovie would have been
INCREDIBLY helpful in month 1; I had to find out with a marked down
assignment."

I couldn't agree with you more, Kristen! I, too, got docked early on for using music that was my own property and then again for using music that I had mistakenly identified as royalty free. And, it seems that some professors are more lax about deducting those points! I have to admit that I've been guilty of Google-ing images that I need for my classroom presentations as well. That's one reason that I've never made my presentations public on a school website, I knew that getting the images straight from Google wasn't exactly kosher.Maybe we should put in one of our evals that we would have really benefited from this class earlier in our course of study.